A Controlled Study of Community-based Exercise Training in Patients With Moderate COPD

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01985529

11-000175

Details and patient eligibility

About

The effectiveness of clinic-based pulmonary rehabilitation in advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is well established, but few data exist for less severe patients treated in alternative settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a novel, community-based exercise program was feasible and effective for patients with moderate COPD.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with moderate COPD and self-reported exercise impairment

Exclusion criteria

• current smokers, pulmonary diseases other than COPD, use of supplemental oxygen, musculoskeletal disease that impaired exercise performance and unstable coronary artery disease or congestive heart failure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Enrollment in pulmonary rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Control

No Intervention group